Bio:

20 Questions

Omoi does not belong to a clan. He was born a peasant before his ability to speak to the kami was discovered.

2. How would others describe your character’s appearance?

Omoi is plain and unmemorable. He is 21, but appears older due to a life spent outdoors exposed to the elements.

3. Is your character a bushi, shugenja, monk, or courtier?

Omoi is a shugenja. He has an intense connection to the natural and spiritual world that manifests itself in his affinity to animals and the kami of earth.

4. What family does your character belong to?

Omoi does not belong to a samurai family. His parents were simple farmers from Quiet Forest Village.

5. What is your character’s main motivation?

Omoi’s main motivation is to maintain and repair the harmony of the natural world wherever he finds it.

6. Who is the person your character trusts most?

Omoi trusts his sensei, Isawa Daichi, more than anyone else in the world.

7. What is your character’s greatest strength? Greatest weakness?

Omoi’s greatest strength is his talent as a shugenja. The guidance of his ancestor grants him an incredible ability to communicate with the kami and his training at the feet of an Isawa have refined that ability into a focused and powerful priest. His greatest weakness, however, is his heart. Omoi can be very emotional, most often manifesting in his deep compassion for life and his love of Shiba Tamagawa.

8. What does your character think of Bushido?

Omoi respects bushido, but does not consider it his place to follow it. Omoi still sees himself as a peasant, not a samurai.

9. What is your character’s opinion of her own clan?

Omoi does not belong to a clan.

10. Is your character married?

Omoi is currently unmarried. His low social status has allowed him to avoid marriage, and that is how he prefers it.

11. Does your character have any prejudices?

He believes that killing disrupts the natural order and should be avoided at all costs. He hates anyone who would willingly defile the natural world or is openly contemptuous of life.